Philadelphia Visual FoxPro User Group

Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Time: 7 PM
Location: Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025

Feel free to bring something to eat and arrive as early as 6:30.

Speaker: Tim Saylor

Tim has been programming since 1983 when he was Transportation Manager at Commodore Business Machines. He started on a Commodore 8032 with PET Basic using relative files. When presented with an IBM PC clone, he switched to dBase III+, then several versions of Clipper. In 1989 he began to use Fox Software and has used every version since. He is currently Director - MIS at Valley Forge Pension Management, inc.

Topic: Social Security Number validation with Visual FoxPro

We'll look at the components of a Social Security Number, view a bit of SSN history, then go into some FoxPro procedures. There's a program that parses the HighGroup.txt file (found on the SSA website) into a FoxPro table. Another program or function takes a Social Security Number and verifies that that number has been issued. This is useful as an initial check for a valid Social Security Number.

If time permits, we'll watch part of a webcast presentation by the late Drew Speedie on VFP 9 enhancements to the form & class designers.